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It never really occurred to me that most people don't check their tire pressure once or twice a month and let it get that bad.
I used to be somebody who checked tire pressures much more often. Oil level too.
But even though our current vehicles are 12 and 13 years old, the tire pressure monitoring works right away on a cold day, and its threshold before turning on the light isn't super low. It's high 20s psi I believe.
It's not that I want to ignore the workings of my car. I often enjoy using my phone olconnected to my bluetooth OBDII scanner to provide a bunch of extra gauges. I drive an old Mazda3 and it doesn't even have a temperature gauge, just a light. So it's cool being able to monitor coolant temperature, voltage, actual gallons of fuel in the tank, and various other sensors if I feel like it.
Or they made their seasonal change from their summers to winters, and if, like me, you have separate rims so you can easily do it at home, you now get to drive around with the car whining about no tpms. Because fucking cars can't have this as built in diagnostic functionality in these giant computers on wheels.
When I have time I'll pop over to a shop that can reprogram them to the second set, but it's not exactly priority numero uno.
I check mine when my car tells me to
I've just realised I've completely stopped checking mine since switching to an EV. I can go a couple of months without even stopping at a service station, so the old habit is broken.
Edit: For the confused people replying to me, we don't call them gas stations outside of North America. We call them service stations or petrol stations.
I'm sure we do dumb things too, but calling a liquid "gas" is fucking comical btw 😆
Why do you need to stop so often at a service station with an EV? I thought the second plus was not having to get it serviced as much.
What did you stop for at a service station before? Do you mean filling the car up?
In the last month, the high temps where I live have dropped approximately 40 degrees.
That enough to drop tires pressure to the point of the light coming on if you're not checking it at least biweekly
Which biweekly are you referring to?
Every two weeks.
Twice a week seems excessive...
You don't get it. Snow tires.
You buy a second set of wheels, and its more expensive to add TPMS so you don't and you just get the light 4 months of the year.
Have snow tires, don't have this issue. If I didn't have that measurement thing then I could just reset the system to zero.
It only happens if you have a separate set of rims for your snow tires (and those rims have no TPMS sensors installed)
I'm not sure how the terminology works in English. I change the tires I open the bolts and take the tire off and it just has that small round metal part left where the brake is and that the bolts attach to. If without rims means just the rubber part then I haven't really seen that sort of tire changing where I live. I wonder how you change such tires yourself, the rubber part seems pretty firmly in place
Oh so you are changing the rims in fact. Not sure why you're not getting a tire pressure warning in that case, either the second set of rims has sensors, or there's something wrong with the system
But to answer your question, around here most people who only change the tires (rubber) and re-use the same rims (metal) have it done professionally. It's not impossible to do it at home but it's generally not worth the trouble
Mine got down to 18 psi